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Let’s say that Assad wins this war with Iran’s backing, what would happen?
The price would be virtually total control of the government in Damascus, even before the revolution Bashar had allowed Iranian influence into Syria much more than his father Hafez ever did. The Iranians aren’t helping Assad out of love. The have hegemonic ambitions to dominate the entire region. It is only with their help that Assad holds on to power, and they will also have the power to remove him if he doesn’t tow their line.

So the war is won. What next? It is clear that Assad would go on a killing spree, slaughtering everyone who he felt was in opposition to him. This would amount to millions of people. There is precedent, his father killed thousands in Hama back in the 80′s when they showed discontent with the regime. The next time will be on…

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Today in Tahrir Square, there are at least 100,000 demonstrators gathered to protest President Morsi, who was elected one year ago today. The Egyptians have discovered “Power to the People!” There is reporting of a possible new revolution beginning. According to the demonstrators, Morsi has failed to tackle economic and security issues while putting the agenda of Muslim Brotherhood before the country’s wider interests.

Last night, demonstrators camped out in the square which brought back images of protectors who brought about the fall of ex-president Hosni Mubark, in February 2012.

It seems the same demonstration with only the picture of the leader that has changed. Mubarak lived and ruled as an absolute ruler for 30 years. He seemed a reincarnation of the ancient pharaohs. There is a story of him riding through the streets of Cairo and remarking that “There is no traffic problem in Cairo!” after his aides had…

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I think this is likely to become the new ‘in vogue’ celebrity euphemism.

Stuart Hall has ‘gone to Canada’ for 15 months, while Graham Ovenden avoided having to go to Canada. The Attorney General is now reviewing their ‘holiday’ arrangements and it looks likely that both will spend more time in Canada then they’d originally planned. This all follows the revelation that Jimmy Savile never went to Canada.

Bill Roache’s Coronation Street character has not appeared on screen since May and the absence will finally be explained on July 12 when his onscreen wife Deirdre tells her daughter Tracy he has gone to look after his grandson Adam Barlow in Canada, who is recovering after collapsing at work. Adam is the son of Ken’s late daughter Susan and his late love rival Mike Baldwin. “I reckon he just fancied a holiday,” says Tracy, before questioning whether Ken would ever go…

Lowenstein, as we’ve noted before, is a secular, anti-Zionist Jew who previously has advanced antisemitic narratives about the alleged danger to Western governments posed by the power of organized Jewry.

Here’s what he wrote in the July 2 CiF essay:

Alain de Botton, philosopher and author of Religion for Atheists, is worried about fundamentalism. “To say something along the lines of ‘I’m an atheist: I think religions are not all bad’ has become a dramatically peculiar thing to say,” he…

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Pictures of 22 million Egyptians demonstrating for freedom. Egyptian people may be a lot of things but they are not afraid or apathetic!
Peace, freedom, safety, and blessings for the Egyptian people. . . . inshallah!

Dr. Peter Hill is not surprised by Dr. Philip Lee's defection to the Liberal Democrats, today. As one of his constituents, it is exactly the sort of self-indulgent behaviour he has come to expect from the arrogant MP.

The ignorant identity politics of the Greens is symptomatic of a wider malaise that will not go away. Elite members of society, self-appointed or otherwise, are motivated by a strong neo-authoritarian impulse to overturn the Brexit referendum. They must not succeed